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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

What I would like to know is if we will ever have microwaves that stop the spinning plate in the same place that they started. It's XXI century, I want to take out my cup as easily as I've put it in.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a drink chiller that chills drinks in about a minute. You could use the same idea for other things.

[โ€“] Corkyskog 5 points 1 year ago

The Chill-O-Matic is smaller, cheaper and probably easier to clean as it doesn't seem to have tubing.

The design of that machine in your link is a lot of overkill for something simple.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You should try to build a chamber that sprays liquid nitrogen or other cryogenic liquids at the food.

Idk, good luck.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This was a b plot on the Bam Margera movie haggard.

Falcone wants his royalties

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

some kinds of fire extinguisher could accomplish this. bit expensive though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

In beer brewing there's a point where you want to cool your beer down as quickly as possible.
A chiller is dropped into the just cooked wort. (wort is the beer before fermentation).
It goes from steaming hot to room temperature very quickly.
It's just a spiral pipe that you run cold water through.
Sounds like you need something like that for a potato.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It occurs to me that you could get some really high-speed cooling with liquid nitrogen (or dry ice and alcohol) but the reality of working with cryogenic fluids is that they're pretty dangerous so I don't think anyone would do that. Unlike a microwave where the dangerous part (the waves) is all self-contained and turns off the instant you open the door.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I present the Macro Wave!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's an air conditioner. Or a fridge.

You just need to adjust the output and input sizes. Do to like... physics. It is easier to add heat to a system than to remove it.

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